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VOLUME I — NUMBER 34
Ga. Patrol To Be
At Top Strength
On Thanksgiving
A. *-ANTA — A massive traffic
enforcement drive will be car
ru-d out in Georgia by the State
H^hwdy Patrol during the
Thanksgiving holiday period, it
was announced by Col. William
F. Trotter, director of the Geor
gia Department of Public Safety.
It began at 6 pm. Wednesday,
Nov. 23, and will continue until
midnight Sunday, Nov. 27, a total
01 102 hours.
Based on traffic accident ex
peuences in Georgia over past
Thanksgiving holidays and on
present trends, the State Patrol
Piediuts that at least 18 persons
will be killed and 235 others in
jured in approximately 650 acci
dents occurring this year.
“We most certainly hope our
prediction is wrong,*” declared
Col. Trotter. “We’ll be out on the
roads at maximum strength,
working around the clock for 102
consecutive hours, doing every
thing within our powers to pre
vent even one serious accident
froc occuring.”
Al Available personnel and
equipment will be pressed into
service, including speed-timing
devices, the safety director said.
Regular patrolling units will be
augmented with GBI agents and
headquarters personnel. Differ
ent makes and colors of patrol
cars will be used. Airborne spot
ters will work closely with the
ground units.
Roadblocks will be set up at
Roadblocks will be set up at un
announced strategic points over
the state. The massive operation
will be kinder the personal direc
tion of Col. Trotter and Lt. Col.
H. L. Conner .deputy director.
‘■Our troopers will be any
where and everywhere we think
they can do the moat good in
bolding down accidents and re
sultant deaths,” the safety direc
tor emphasised. “They will per
form their duties courteously but
they have strict orders to be firm
and, if necessary, to get tough
with foolhardy, reckless drivers.
We are determined to maintain
safety on the roads.”
In mobilizing his forces and
laying plans for the all-out safe
ty campaign, Col. Trotter called
on all drivers, local and county
lw enforcement officers, the press,
radio and television stations and
various safety organizations for
full cooperation in helping to
make the safety program a suc
cess.
New York’s Negro Congressman Tells
About Jack’s Aid, Plans For Future
The Democratic victory on No
vember 8 means that the Negro
Congressman, Adam Clayton
Powell from the 6th District of
New York will be Chairman of
the powerful Committee on Edu
cation and labor in the House of
Representatives in Washington.
The Democratic victory means
that aE of the race mixing bills
proposed by the radicals will be
approved by this committee and
will have the support of the new
President.
In a ktter to his constitutents
on Nov. 3, Adam Clayton Powell
stated that this is the year:
“To vote for your Congressman
to be the Conunittee Chairman, to
vote for a dedicated man, Jack
Kennedy, to be President of the
U..;Ld States who will back up
our bills 100 per cent.”
In this letter, Powell further
said:
“To win this victory for Har
lem we must have a Democratic
Congress.”
On Nov. 8, Harlem won its
greatest victory.
Powell’s letter, dated Nov. 3,
1860, follows:
On Jan. 2, 1981, your Congress
man will become one of the 19
chairmen of the House of Repre
sentatives of the United States
Congress — the head of the tre
mendously powerful Committee
on Education and Labor. To win
this victory for Harlem we must
have a Democratic Congress,
therefore, YOU MUST VOTE
THE STRAIGHT ROW B ALL
THE WAY ELEVTION DAY,
The Wheeler County News
Alcoholism Ranks
High In Threats
Alcoholism ranks among the 4
major health threats in the US
today, along with cancer, mental
illness anl heart disease.
November 28-December 2 has
been designated as Alcoholism In
formation Week by President Eis
enhower, and proclaimed in Geor- •
gia by Gov. Ernest Vandiver. The
special week is sponsored in Geor
by the National Council on
Alcoholism and ist Georgia unit,
the Metropolitan Atlanta Com
mittee on Alcoholism, and by the
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Service,
Georgia Department of Public
Health.
According to the American
Medical Association, alcoholism is
a disease, not a disgrace. And the
victims of this disease need the
medical, psychiatric and social
help which only community ac
tion can extend.
Like a man in a glass box.
That’s how a recovered alcoholic
once described himself. He was
alice. He could see and be seen.
But he could not communicate
with anybody. He was a man in a
box, apart from the world, not
understanding it,n ot understood
by it. This lack of understanding
is the gerat tragedy of alcoholism.
Industrial wage losses through
absenteeism due to alcoholism are
estimated at 432 million dollars a
year. And the further economic
lass due to person! and profes
sional deterioration is beyond cal
culation.
We cannot afford to allow five
million alcoholisc in our midst to
go unheeded. Help for them is
'’vailable through local health de
partments; through the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Service clinics at
1260 Briarcliff Rd., Atlanta, and
101 East Huntingdon St., Savan
nah; and through the Metropoli
tan Atlanta Committee on Alco
holism.
Nto long ago the farmer’s share
of the consumer’s food dollar was
about 50 cents, says The Progres
sive Farmer. Today it is 39 cents.
NOV. 8.
Under my Chairmanship, this
committee wil Ibring out a new
Minimum Wage Bill, Federal Aid
to Education, massive scholarship
assistance for African students
and from other areas AND A NA
-lIONAL FEPC — therefore, you
must vote straight ROW B Nov.
3th.
ONLY JACK KENNEDY IS
PLEDGED TO SUPPORT ALL
OF THIS PROGRAM. Only Ken
nedy voted for these issues inthe
past. Nixon — THE GREAT PRE- ,
TENDER — would veto all of •
these bills because he voted ev- (
ery in the last 14 years against
ure Powell FEPC, against Mini
mum Wage, againnst Housing,
gainst Federal Aid to Education. |
ven this year,'when the Nixon
Administratio nrefused at the last ।
minute to bring the students from
Africa to the United States it
was Kennedy who personally paid 1
SIOO,OOO. 1
1960 L the year of truth! Whet
her you are Republican, Demo
crat or Liberal, black or White,
Jew or gentile, Protestant or
Catholic, this is the year for all
of us to vote together. To vote
for your Congressman to be the
Committee Chairman, to vote for
1 a ddeicated man, Jack Kennedy,
to be president of the United
i States who will back up our bills
1 100 per cent.
Let us lay aside all partisan
, politics and show America that
! Harlem is on the march Election
, Day.
, Hold down every lever and
Me -Ww
fl. ’ ifriH
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—Then Be Thankful
The Pilgrim Fathers with muskets and quaint hats, the
overflowing horn of harvest plenty, the strutting tom tur
key—they all remind us that our traditional day of happy
feasting is at hand. But this year, even more than in the
past, let’s hope that the thanksgiving pa. I of Thanksgiving
won’t be even a shade prefunctory.
We’ve only to look around us in this November, 1960,
to realize how much truly deserves our gratitude. Ours is
a “good’Tife —not good simply for its creature comforts but
good because it is firmly based in- principles of fundamen
tal decency. We don’t covet other people s land or wealth.
To those in want we proffer a helping Land and we ask
nothing in return.
We believe in justice and fair play. Something of the
greatness of the land we live in is in each o. us. Maybe
we hesitate to define it. Maybe it can’t be defined at all.
But it is there —a bigness of spirit, a belief in the purpose
of our lives as individuals and as a national entity —and
it’s an abiding source of strength.
What is there to be thankful for? Just about every
thing. If we tell ourselves that we live in a sick time, rid
dled with fear and confusion, we’re blinding ourselves to
the fact that we probably represent the best hope in the
world for people who are fearful and confused. We can
be thankful for having been given that part to play in his
, tory.
The potential of our country is so vast as to elude com-
. prehension. We can only dimly perceive its scope and
realize that we are a living part of it. And to be able to
identify ourselves with something so immense, so pivotal
in the future of humanity, is in itself a reason for giving
thanks. The Pilgrims must have sensed this destiny amid
the fruits of their first harvest. Their prayers of thanks
were for the rare responsibility that had been vouchsafed
them, not for a full stomach.
HD Council To Hold
Christmas Bazaar Dec. 3
The annual Christmas Bazaar
sponsored by the Wheeler County
HD Council, will be held Satur
day, Dec. 3, at the REA building
in Alamo. Time of sale will be
to A. M. Plates of barbecued
•hicken will be sold, along with
homemade cakes and pies, candies
and etc.
Price of plates will be 50c and
51.00. You are invited to be
pres.nt at this annual event.
The HD Council also has a new
nipply of vanilla flavoring and
black pepper for sale. You may
contact any club member or the
home agent’s office for the pur
chase of these items.
’eave them down on ROW B and
ROW B only.
You srfor a complete victory
for the people.
Sincerely,
(Signed)
ADAM C. POWELL *
W.M.U. News
The Woman’s Missionary Un
ion of the Alamo Baptist Church
I will observe its annual Week of
Prayer for Foreign Missions, Nov.
1 28-Dec. 2. Everyone is invited
Ito attend these services. All of
which will be held in the church
sanctuary. 1 ~ese services are
preparation for the Lottie Moon
offering for Foreign Missions.
The schedule for the week is:
Monday, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m. —
“Seeing the Multitudes Hungry.”
Tuesday, Nov. 29, 10 a.m. —
j “Seeing the Multitudes Diseas
ed.”
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m.
— “Seeing the Multitudes Afraid”
and “Seeing the Multitudes with
I Corr passion.”
Thursday, Dec. 1, 10 a.m. —
“Seeing the Multitudes Without
. a Shepherd.”
Friday, Dec. 2, 8:00 — All day
prayer center. All are invited
I to go by and pray as they so de
' sire.
HAVING OUR WAY
By J. Seaborn Winn, Alamo, Ga.
rthat if God let us have our way
Gave all we ask each passing
day;
Would it make us change our
prayer
And place ourselves more in
Hi« care?
No! Every day we would get
worse,
Each blessing we would make
a curse.
Until this world in which we
dwell
Would change from Heaven
into Hell.
j
Increased use of glass in win
: dows and sliding doors of mod
; ern homes has brought about a
■ | need for planting more shrubs
11 and trees away from the building
■ land less foundation planting, ac-
I Specialist T. G. Williams,
ALAMO, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 196tf
Don’t sell timber this fall un
less trees are well matured and
you will suffer loss by waiting
eight to 12 months.
Health Department
History Os A Chron
Let us call her Mrs. Brown,
hut isn’t her real name but it
will do. She has been drunk for
much of the past 12 years. For
aa years sne nas been drinking
acavily.
Mrs. Brown is one of one mil
lion known alcoholics in the Unit
ed States. There are between one
and three million problem drink
ers in additio. n It is difficult to
;et accurate statistics because
people tend to hide alcoholism
from their families, rfiends and
the public.
Mrs. Brown is a 40-year-old
housewife currently living with
her fifth husband. She is seek
ing help because she had panic
attacks which caused her to col
lapse when she attempted any ac
tivity new to her. In addition she
nad feelings of guilt, depression
1: d low esteem.
Many alcoholics could read
ter .dory and recognize certain
aspects of her life similar to their
own lives and problems.
She was a single child born
into a wealthy family. Her fath
er deserted when she was three
years old. Her mother was a so
cil butterfly who turned' her over
to the care of servants who
changed frequently and there was
no stable person to whom the
child could become attached. The
child was terrified of her moth
er’s violent temper tantrums and
avoided her whenever possible.
Her only contacts with her moth
er were disciplinary.
The patient recalled having
temper tantrums in the presence
of her mother and the servants on
several occasions. She always fait
that people were making de
mands on her and giving her very
little in return. In genera Ishe
was an obedient little girl, aloof
and lonely, under the strict rule
of h.r mother and the servants.
When she was 18 she met a
man while on a trip to France,
ran away and got married. This
i, not a rare story for a girl who
ha felt unloved andun wanted at
home. Women like this are driv
en by th need for love. They do
not take time to evaluate care
fully the man they marry.
This man proved difficult.
There were conflicts over religion
and over the husband’s interest
in other women. She finally ran
away from him and returned to
the United States. A series of ro
mances followed with various
mon, all in a desperate search for
love.
She finally found a man she
bought was gentle and kind, but
j later found that he was an alco-
I holm and a frequent philanderer.
I, She divorced him and married a
t third man. When he went away
i into the service she was very
i lonely and depressed. She began
jto drink heavily. Her alcoholism
; became so severe she was fre
i auently in and out of institutions
for pare of alcoholics.
Her marriages to her fourth
and fifth husbands were very sim
ilar to the first two. Her mar
’ riag-s were torn with strife; she
mad-' more demands on the hus
bar'’s than they could po&<blv
meet. Chronic anger, chronic
guilt and chronic depression were
1 the resuluts.
There are two general views of
< the behavior of alcoholics. One is
’ that many types of people drink
, excessively. Another is that aim
, Bar patterns of behavior or cha-
I ract- - traits are found in almost
1- I all alcoholics. Prolonged study
I- | shows there are characteristics
a whmh seem to be present in many
,s ! alcoholics, if no tall;
& (1) These are isolated people
■"। with a basic sense of estrange
ment from other people. Although
Cora E. Hartley Bible
Class Met On Fonday
The Cora E. Hartley Bible
। Class met Monday night for its
1 regular meeting at the Alamo
Baptist Annex, wit hMr... kuy
mond Chauncey and Mrs. W. R.
McDaniel as co-hostesses. Assist
ed by Little Miss Harriet John
son.
There were 12 members pres
ent.
The class voted to sponsor the
n-ayer meeting Wednesday night,
Nov. 23. Those attending prayer
meeting will be served refresh
ments in the church annex.
Gives The Case
lie Alcoholic
ilcoholics may have a facade of
eing outgoing and sociable, they
■o not make warm personal re
ationships. This isolation and ec
entricity is accompanied by in
fantile and immature behavior.
Irs. Brown’s relationships with
ter husband are an example.
(2) These people are depend
ent. They try to achieve sgcur
ty through the efforts of others.
Sometimes this dependency is
concealed by working for an in
.’titution such as the Army. Mrs.
Brown shows this dependency in
turning to a number of husbands
ifter her family failed to meet
her dependency needs.
(3) Many of these people are
■hronically dpressed. Thev have
a sense of self-hatred and sadness
nd feel that life is hopeless. They
feel bored and fatigued. Some
’empt suicide over and over
igain.
(4) Many alcoholics are ex
tremely angry. Sometimes Uus
,s hidden by affability and jovial
ity, but undreneath they are fre
quently in a chronic rage. Belli
gerence is most commonly seen in
the alcoholic when he gets drunk,
thin the facade of amiability
cracks. Mrs. Brown was a chron
ic rage at her mother, at the ser
vants, at all of her husbands.
(5) Alcoholics have difficulty
m fulfilling the male and femaie
.ole. Many of the meel inade
quate as men, as workers and
fathers. The same is true of wom
m. Many find it difficult to ac
cept the responsibility of mother
aood. Mrs. Brown had difficul
ty accepting the role of mother to
her one child or as a wife to any
of her husbands. She really al
ways wanted to be a child.
Where do the patterns of be
lavior which we see in the alco
holic come from? It seems like
ly that these people were not
aught how to be loved and how
to be affectionate when they
vere children. Because they
vere frustrated with their par
mts, they have been withdrawn
and distrustful of other people.
^s a consequence of this early
childrhood deprivation, they are
.till dependent.
An adult who chronically wish
's to be a child is bound to be
frustrated time and time again.
Chronic frustration leads to hos
tility and anger. It is also clear
why these people have difficul
ty acepting the masculine and
aminine role. They do not real
ly want to be an adult. They
want to bechildren.
Why do adults drink? They
drink to drown the depression,
the anger, the anxiety, and the
feelings of inadequacy which are
always present.
In recent years we have found
that the spouse frequently con
tributes to the alcoholic’s illness.
An alcoholic's wife may complain
bitterly about her husband but
after we come to understand, it
is often clear that she wants him
to be helpless and dependent on
her. If he stops drinking the
wife will become emotionally dis
turbed and sometimes seriously
ill mentally. For this reason it is
frequently necessary to see both
husband and wife in treatment of
the alcoholic; that is, both must
be treated simultaneously.
There is much yet to be learned
in our studies of alcoholism. Cur
rent thinking suggests that the al
coholic is sick. He is a mentally
ard emotionally disturbed per
son. in need of some type of psy
chological help. Sometimes this
help can come through a family
counselor, a minister, or clinics;
sometimes the patient needs pro
longed psychiatric care.